Subject: Re: why (reverse "aba") not compliing?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/03/02
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3129358768479279@naggum.no>
* Hyunchul Kim <hyunchul@andrew.cmu.edu>
| From a book I saw reverse is a function for sequences, so I believe it
| is for strings as well buy when I tried (reverse "aba") in CL, it did not
| compile and says "wrong type argument: consp "aba" "
it seems that you are using a Lisp that is not Common Lisp at all. your
previous problems with MAPCAR look like Emacs Lisp problems, and the
above error message is also provided by Emacs Lisp. Emacs Lisp is very
far from a Common Lisp implementation. even with the CL package, the
core functions are still broken, but (require 'cl) does give you MAPCAR*,
but no REVERSE*.
#:Erik